On Thursday, Erin had her two littlest girls (the others were at soccer practice with BT) and they were going to Wal-Mart and to Costco. They only made it as far as Wal-Mart...and did no shopping. Ellie was a few steps in front of Erin and she was opening the side door near the carts when a big gust of wind caught the door and wedged the two middle fingers on her left hand in the door. Erin rushed to help and pulled the door open. There is basically no skin (very deep) on those fingers on the last two knuckle sections. Poor girl. Erin rushed her to the restroom to wash it so she could see what sort of damage was done. It was bad. A couple of ladies helped her with the washing the one even got some ice to put on it. But it was bleeding pretty bad. The mgmt. at the time weren't a lot of help, however. Erin thought they were calling 911 to get her some help, but when the "help" arrived, it was only a mgr. wanting to take an incident report. When Erin realized that, she rushed off to a pediatric urgent care where they took good care of Ellie. They cleaned it and bandaged it. They took x-rays and luckily, the fingers weren't broken. It's pretty gruesome. And the bad part now is that it has to be cleaned and rebandaged three times a day and Ellie hates that. They have to basically hold her down to do it. I helped Erin today since BT wasn't home, and it was not fun. I felt so bad for little Ellie. She held on tight and cried and cried. But we got it done. She's pretty good about playing still and tries to do everything herself, but she has problems. Those fingers are pretty important ones to try to function without. I won't post a picture of the actual wounds, but here is Ellie with her bandaged fingers. Brave girl!
And today was the start of the soccer season in Peoria. Eliza, Abigail and Dallin are all playing on teams. Eliza's team is the Darth Vaders (black uniform), Abigail's team wears royal blue and are the Jaguars. Dallin (and Brian's team...he's the coach!) wear light blue and are called the Big Blue. They all had a great time playing. If you look at the pictures of Dallin, he is having pure joy as he plays and even more so as the ball comes his way. The other little kids spent their time collecting ladybugs and kicking soccer balls to Grandpa up and down the hill. It was a fun day.
This evening Mark went to the YW Broadcast. I chose to watch it here at home...no use putting on a dress and nylons if you don't have to! It was a great broadcast. Can't wait for General Conference next weekend. Yea!
